Package-tie.



G. T. CHANDLER;

PACKAGE TIE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR.3,1908.

Patented Mar. 30, 1909.

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PACKAGE-TIE i no; 916,671.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 30, 1909.

Application filed April 3, 1908. Serial No. 424,973.

. useful Improvements in Packagelies, of

which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to improvements in package ties, and particularly to improvements in the construction of fasteners for the binders thereof, the object of the invention being to provide a simple and inexpensive device of this character embodying a fastener to'which one end of the binder, such as a cord or strap, is connected and which is provided with clamping members or sections between which the opposite or free end of the cord or strap may be applied and deflected at a plurality of points to secure it firmly from disconnection to hold the binder about the package, while permittin of the ready and free disconnection of the free end of the binder from the fastener to adapt the tie as a whole to be conveniently removed.

The invention consists of the features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the use of the tie in connection with a package. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the fastener detached.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates a binder, such as a cord or piece of twine,adapted to be wound around the package 2 to hold the component parts thereof assembled. It will, of course, be under stoodthat the package 2 may consist of mail matter of any kind, papers of any nature or a wrapped article of any character which is designed to be bound by the improved tie.

The binder 1 is secured at one end perma nently to one end of a fastener 3, which latter may be provided with an opening a in which the end of the cord or twine is fitted and secured in any preferred manner. Preferably, the fastener is also provided with a slot 5, in which one of the ends of a binder in the formof a band of flat material, such as a tape or strap, may be secured when such a type of binder is to be employed.

The fastener comprises an elongated body ortion or lplate provided along one of its ongitudina side edges with an upright wall or flange 6, the base of the body or plate being flat to rest snu 'ly against the adjacent surface of the package. The outer or upper face of the body or plate is provided with an undulating clamping surface, formed by providing said body or plate with a series of transversely arranged ribs or projections 7 providing a plurality of contact surfaces against which the free end of the binding cord or strap is adapted to be clamped. For use in conjunction with the ribs a series of retaining or clamping pins 8 is provided, said pins being supported at their outer ends by the flan e or upright wall 6 and thence eX- tending transversely over the body portion or plate with their free ends terminating substantially in line with the front longitudinal edge of said plate. The pins stand below the plane of the upper surfaces of the ribs 7 and lie partially within the grooves or recesses 9 formed between the ribs, their surfaces being concentric with the curved faces of the portions of the plate forming the ribs and walls of the recesses between the ribs.

In the use of the device, it will be understood that the fastener is rested against one side of the package, and the binder 1 passed one or more times around the package, after which the free end of the binder is slid laterally from the front side of the fastener between the ribs and pins, or more specifically over the faces of the ribs and down into the recesses below the pins. By this means alternately arranged upwardly and downwardly deflected portions will be formed in the free end of the binder, and such portions will be firmly and securely clamped by and frictionally engaged with the ribs and pins, so that the package will be eliiciently bound. The pins and the walls of the recesses are so spaced that each pin and cooperating surfaces of the ribs exert a determined frictional resistance to the movement of the cord either longitudinally or laterally between them, which resistance is not sufficient to prevent the insertion and removal of the portions of the cord, the sum of these resistances however being suflicient when the cord is applied to prevent the engaged portion from having longitudinal movement under any ordinary pull to which it is subjected, by which the free end of the cord will be securely clamped. If desired, the terminal of the free end of the cord may be allowed to project and be turned back and inserted in one of the grooves beneath the adjacent pin, thus providing for a tion and exceedingly useful in binding packages of mail matter, and in many other connections, and it will be understood that in order to detach the binder it is simply necessary to slide the free end of the cord laterally out of engagement with the ribs and pins, thus permitting the package to be practically instantaneously unbound with a minimum amount of labor.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is:-

1. A package tie comprising a body having an undulating surface providing alternate ribs and recesses, and provided with relatively stationary retaining members projecting into said recesses, said recesses and re taining members extending in a direction transversely of said body, and a binder secured at one end to the body and adapted to l have its free end inserted between and retained by said ribs and retaining members.

2. A package tie comprising a fastener embodying a base having an upright portion, the upper surface of the base being provided with a series of alternately arranged ribs and recesses, and said upright portion being provided with a series of pins extending laterally therefrom over the base and within said re cesses, and a binder connected at one end of 3 the fastener and adapted to be clamped at its free end between the ribs and pins.

3. A fastener for binding cords and the like, comprising a body portion provided with a series of alternately arranged ribs and 40 recesses, an upright at one of the sides of said body portion, and a series of retaining pins extending from the upright and within the recesses of said body portion.

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